A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 109-113)

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Each with an oval padded back, armrests and seat covered in yellow foliate silk-damask, with channelled frame, the arms with downswept supports, on ring-turned tapering reeded legs headed by oval paterae, with turned tapering feet, one inscribed in chalk 'ROACH', regilt (2)

來源

Probably part of a set of twelve sold by David Campion, Esq., Danny House, Sussex, Sotheby's London, 13 May 1960, lot 182.
Possibly Mrs. A.E. Roach (see note to lot 110).

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拍品專文

These chairs are probably part of the white-painted and parcel-gilt suite of seat furniture, comprising twelve armchairs and a settee, that was sold by David Campion, Esq. at Sotheby's London, 13 May 1960. The suite formed part of the 18th Century drawing-room furnishings of Danny House, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, where it had remained until the Sotheby's sale.
It was at Danny, on 13 October 1918 that the terms for an Armistice with Germany were drawn up.